WO2000036565A9 - Method and apparatus for processing images with regions representing target objects - Google Patents
Method and apparatus for processing images with regions representing target objectsInfo
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- the present invention relates to image processing systems and methods, and more particularly to image processing systems that process images with regions representing target objects.
- Image registration is an image processing technique for combining two or more images, or selected points from the images, to produce a composite image containing data from each of the registered images. During registration, a transformation is computed that maps related points among the combined images so that points defining the corresponding structures in each of the combined images are correlated in the composite image.
- Image processing techniques suitable for image registration follow two different approaches.
- the first requires that an individual with expertise in the structure of the object represented in the images label a set of landmarks in each of the images that are to be registered. For example, when registering two MRI images of different axial slices of a human head, a physician may label points, or a contour adjacent to these points, corresponding to the cerebellum in two images. The two images are then registered by relying on a known relationship among the landmarks in the two brain images.
- the second currently-practiced technique for image registration uses the mathematics of small deformation multi-target registration and is image data driven. Here, volume based imagery is generated of the two targets from which a coordinate system transformation is constructed.
- the present invention provides a methodology for image processing that can compensate for the presence of target objects in images.
- a method and apparatus registers a first and a second image, where the second image contains a target object.
- the method comprises the steps of identifying a region in the second image containing one or more image data elements representing the target object, transforming the second image to reduce the size of the region containing the target object, and registering the first image and the second image.
- a method comprises the steps of identifying a region in the second image containing one or more image data elements representing a target object. After identifying this region, the first and second images are registered using a first transform component that
- Fig. 1 is a flow diagram of a method for growing a seed region in accordance with the present invention
- Fig. 2 is schematic diagram illustrating an apparatus for processing images in accordance with the present invention
- Fig. 3 is a computer display of coronal, sagittal, and axial views of a head image containing a tumor with a defined seed region;
- Fig. 4 is a computer display of coronal, sagittal, and axial views of a head image containing a tumor with an identified tumor region;
- Fig. 5 is a flow diagram of an image processing method for automatically removing image data elements corresponding to an object embedded in an image in accordance with the present invention
- Fig. 6 is a computer display of coronal, sagittal, and axial views of a head image after a tumor has been removed from the image using image processing in accordance with the present invention.
- Fig. 7 is a flow diagram of a method for registering a target image and an atlas image in accordance with the present invention.
- a method and system which locates objects in image data.
- FIG. 1 illustrates a presently preferred embodiment of the invention and together with the general description given above and detailed description of the preferred embodiment given below, serve to explain the principles of the invention.
- region includes one or more image data elements.
- An image data element includes, for example, a pixel or a voxel.
- a method consistent with the present invention helps an operator to locate regions in an image representing objects such as structural anomalies. The method begins with an image containing one or more target objects of interest.
- a physician or technician can use the method to determine the extent of a mass effect tumor present in the image.
- a mass effect tumor is a tumor that displaces the tissue of surrounding structures.
- this type of tumor is an example of the type of object that can be localized in an image for subsequent analysis.
- the first step of the method shown in Fig. 1 identifies a seed region in the image containing at least one data element representing diseased tissue located in the tumor (step 100).
- the seed region can be identified in any of a number of ways. For example, a computer system can identify a data element in the MRI that represents the tumor. One suitable technique would use histogram or thresholding algorithms known in the art to identify a candidate seed region representing a portion of the tumor. Alternatively, an operator can identify the seed region by selecting a data element or group of data elements in the image representing a portion of the tumor. A mathematical texture or intensity model (or a model that embodies both texture and intensity) is then defined for data elements representing diseased tissue in the tumor and normal tissue in the image (steps 102 and 104, respectively).
- Texture and intensity models define the distribution of the gray scale values of data elements in an image. Moreover, texture can be modeled as a structured variation of intensity. There are a number of possible texture and intensity models known in the art that are suitable for the present method, including, but not limited to Gaussian and mixtures of Gaussian distributions. Gaussian- based distributions, like other types of parametric statistical distributions, are appropriate models to use because the models can be adapted to the image by modifying only a few parameters, such as the mean and variance of the distribution. The models can be selected by software that inspects the tumor region and normal region of the image and selects appropriate models by, for example, estimating a mean and variance of the data elements in the regions of interest. Alternatively, an operator can specify appropriate models.
- the seed region is grown to increase the number of data elements representing the tumor contained in the seed region, while decreasing the number of data elements representing normal tissue contained in the seed region (step 106).
- the method seeks to maximize the number of data elements representing the tumor contained in the seed region, while minimizing the number of data elements representing normal tissue contained in the seed region.
- the result of the operation of this method is to define a boundary in the image that encloses the tumor, but does not include significant amounts of normal tissue not affected by the tumor.
- Fig. 2 is an apparatus for implementing embodiments consistent with the present invention.
- Each of the described techniques involves computations that are preferably executed in hardware and or software stored in a computer system.
- the images that are processed are acquired from imaging devices during processing and/or are retrieved from storage devices.
- medical imaging scanner 214 obtains images and stores them on a computer memory 206 which is connected to a computer central processing unit (CPU) 204.
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- Computer memory 206 can be directly connected to CPU 204, or this memory can be remotely connected through a communications network.
- the computational operations described herein can be allocated among several devices in a distributed network, including, but not limited to, networks linked by the Internet.
- the computer system of Fig. 2 also can include user interfaces for operator input.
- the interfaces include keyboard 212 and mouse 208, which controls cursor 210.
- Display 202 has windows 216 and 218.
- An embodiment of a process consistent with the present invention for growing a surface from a seed sphere to define the bounding surface of the tumor estimates a closed surface M which reduces an elastic regularization energy while increasing the data log- likelihood associated with the texture characteristics of the diseases and normal anatomy.
- a target anatomical imagery I(x) in a region of interest ⁇ Begin by first defining a texture model for the interior and the exterior of diseased region of interest.
- An example of such a model is an independent Gaussian texture model with different mean and variances for the interior and the exterior.
- ⁇ int , o int be the mean and variance of the Gaussian texture of the tumor.
- ⁇ i Ext , o E 2 l ⁇ t be the mean and variance of the Gaussian texture of the exterior or the normal anatomy surrounding the tumor. This defines the data likelihood model.
- M be a ciosed triangulated surface with interior M ml . Then the energy defined by the texture model and the surface M becomes:
- a regularization energy is selected for the prior that constrains the estimate of the surface to be smooth.
- the surface lattice is preferably modeled as an elastic sheet. The energy is then locally given by the distance between the sites in the lattice.
- N(x,) the set of all neighbors of vertex x, in the triangulated graph.
- n the outward normal at each vertex.
- a preferred iterative gradient algorithm for generating a surface minimizing combined energy is:
- Fig.3 illustrates an application of this method to medical images.
- Fig.3 includes four windows 300, 302, 304, and 306.
- Windows 300, 304, and 306 contain sagittal, axial, and coronal views of a three-dimensional MRI of a patient's brain containing mass effect tumor 308.
- An operator draws an initial seed region 310 in any one of the views, using for example a computer pointing device to select one or more image data elements that correspond to the tumor.
- software can determine the boimdary of a seed region, by for example, selecting a group of image data elements falling in a selected bin of a histogram for the image.
- Window 302 is a wireframe representation of the selected seed region in its initial condition prior to growing it to encompass the tumor.
- the seed region can be, for example, a single point, a two-dimensional area, or a three-dimensional volume.
- Fig. 4 shows the windows of Fig. 3 after growing the seed region to encompass tumor B08. As seen in Fig. 4, what was an initial region 310, has grown to region 410. In accordance with the method, region 410 was grown to maximize the volume of the tumor contained in the region, while avoiding extending 410 to encroach on normal tissue in the image. In this example, all of the tumor tissue has not been completely contained in region 410, however the results can be improved by allowing additional iterations of the method and/or refining the definitions of the intensity or texture models used for the tumor or normal tissue.
- Fig. 4 shows coronal, sagittal, and axial views of an image where the tumor image boimdary 412 has been automatically identified using the method of Fig. 1.
- Window 402 is a wireframe of the three-dimensional region after growing it to cover the tumor. Accordingly, by applying this method, the region of the image occupied by the tumor is automatically located and segmented from the remainder of the image.
- Fig. 5 is a flow diagram of an image processing method for automatically removing an object embedded in a deformable substance.
- the method is applicable to processing many types of images including, but not limited to, medical images.
- This method is especially suited for removing tumors from medical images because as certain tumors grow in the brain, the tumors deform the structures in the brain.
- the method begins with an image with an identified object boundary separating the object from the substance into which the object is embedded.
- the object boundary can be automatically identified using, for example, the method of Fig. 1.
- the region in the image representing the object to be removed can be identified by an operator using, for example, a mouse or other pointing device to trace the object boimdary on a digital representation of the image (step 500).
- a transform is automatically computed such that when the transform is applied to the image the tumor region shrinks, preferably to a single point.
- the transform that is computed not only shrinks the tumor region, but also predicts the shape of the normal anatomy after removal of the tumor.
- the computed transform is applied to the image with the tumor so that the size of the region of interest is reduced and the normal shape of the image without the object in the region of interest is restored.
- the method reverses the deformation caused by the introduction of the object in the region of interest. Accordingly, reducing the size of the image area occupied by the tumor (or reducing the proportionate size of the tumor region by enlarging or emphasizing other areas of the image), can reduce the amount of data that can skew the registration process.
- Fig. 6 shows coronal (606), sagittal (600), and axial (604) views of the image after the operation of step 504 described above restores the image to remove the tumor.
- the tumor has been removed from the image. 612 corresponds to the location of the tumor boundary prior to removal.
- the representation of the anatomical structures have been restored to their normal characteristics, i.e., pre-tumor shape and density. Compare, for example, ventricle region 414 in the axial image in Fig. 4 with the corresponding representation of the ventricle region 614 in image 606 where the tumor has been electronically removed by applying the computed transform.
- Fig. 6 shows that the result of the image processing described herein restores the representation in the image of the ventricle region and surrounding tissue to their normal appearance.
- libraries containing reference images are used to restore, modify, or classify target images. These applications include generating a composite image for a physician to use in planning radiation therapy to remove a tumor. These libraries are also used to build image models that inco ⁇ orate reference image and target image data. Images in these libraries are known in the art as “atlases” or “atlas images.” Atlases are used, for example, to compare image data in the target image with corresponding image data in an atlas. During registration, a correlation or mapping is computed of corresponding image data elements among images. Many computational techniques for automatically comparing atlas and target images fail because of anomalies in the target image that distort the target image to such a degree that correlations between the atlas and target images are difficult to determine.
- the target image is transformed in accordance with, for example, the method of Fig. 5, described in greater detail above, to remove the appearance of the anomaly in the image prior to relating the target image to a corresponding atlas image.
- the target image and the atlas image are compared at points where the target image has not been distorted by an anomaly, compared after filtering target image data elements that have been distorted by an anomaly.
- mass-effect tumors appear as discrete regions of dark pixels in an image. See, for example, tumor region 410 in Fig. 4 is consistent with a mass- effect tumor.
- An embodiment consistent with the present invention maps an atlas image to a target image containing representations of discrete anomalies by mapping the atlas image data to the target image at locations corresponding to anatomy that has not been affected by the tumor. Using this technique, the mapping process will not be skewed or confused by regions in the target image that have been corrupted by the presence of the anomaly.
- I(x) a pathological anatomical image referred to as I(x), where x is a data element in the image in a region of interest ⁇ .
- the image contains a mass-effect tumor occupying a sub-region rin region ⁇ .
- a reference library contains at least one corresponding normal anatomic atlas image T(x) that does not contain a tumor.
- the objective is to generate a composite image that combines the atlas T(x) and the target image I(x) by mapping corresponding data in both images.
- the method begins with the step of identifying the sub-region in the image representing a tumor (Fig. 7, step 702). This step can be accomplished in a number of ways. An operator can outline the sub-region of the image displayed on a screen using a pointing device. Automated methods can also be used to identify the tumor sub-region. These automated methods include image edge detection algorithms known in the art and region growing techniques such as the procedure described in greater detail above.
- a transform h,(x) is computed that shrinks the tumor sub-region of the target image to a single data element.
- the transform preferably restores the image to a state where structures have a normal appearance while reducing the size of the tumor.
- the computed transform h,(x) is then applied to the target image to generate a normal image (step 704).
- the foregoing steps are preferably executed in accordance with the procedure described in detail above for removing an object embedded in a deformable substance.
- a second transform h 2 (x) is computed for mapping the corresponding atlas image and the generated normal image (step 706).
- the second transform used for mapping is preferably generated using image registration techniques such as, for example, the techniques described in U.S. Patent Application Nos. 08/678,628 and 09/186,359, inco ⁇ orated by reference herein in their entirety.
- a third transform h 3 (x) is generated from the first and second transforms (step 708).
- the third transform is applied to map the atlas image to the original target image, the image that contains a tumor region (step 710). According to this approach, a mapping between the atlas image and the target image containing a tumor is generated in a way that reduces the potential errors that are often introduced when transformations are generated using image data representing the tumor.
- Some anomalies that appear in images are infused with the image and are not easy to isolate, shrink, and reverse displacement caused by the anomaly.
- One type of such anomalies are infiltrating tumors. Examples of infiltrating tumors include tumors that change the tissue characteristics but do not displace the normal tissue.
- a method consistent with the present invention filters the tumor region when computing a map relating the atlas and the target.
- An embodiment of such a filter consistent with the present invention excludes image data elements corresponding to the tumor region.
- One skilled in the art will recognize that there are other suitable filters with varying weights that can be applied to image data elements.
- x is a data element in the image in a region of interest ⁇ .
- the image contains an infiltrating tumor occupying a sub-region rin region ⁇ .
- the distance function used in atlas mapping methods such as, for example, those disclosed in U.S. Patent Application Serial Nos. 08/678,628 and 09/186,359, is modified to accommodate this pathology.
- U.S. Patent Application Serial Nos. 08/678,628 and 09/186,359 disclose an image mapping process that uses a distance measure D, defining the disparity between a template image transformed to target image I(x), T(h(x)), and image I(x). An equation for expressing this disparity is:
- ⁇ is a region of interest in the target image I(x)
- h(x) is a transform for transforming data elements in target image I(x) to corresponding data elements in atlas image T(x).
- This form of disparity measure is effective at mapping normal target images, i.e., images without anomalies, to atlas images.
- Pathological anatomical target images e.g., target images containing an infiltrating tumor
- the above disparity equation is preferably modified so that the measure of disparity excludes the sub- region ⁇ when comparing the target image and the transformed atlas image.
- the preferred disparity measure is:
- F is a function that inco ⁇ orates a mathematical model that maps data element values in the sub-region containing an infiltrating tumor corresponding to the data element values in a normal image.
- the function F will exploit any information available about the relationship between data elements in the tumor region and what value those elements would have if the image were normal. Information such as the mean intensity value and the variance of the intensity values can be used to generate the function F, assuming for example, image element intensity values adhere to a Gaussian model.
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- MRI magnetic resonance imaging
- this invention can also be used on images acquired from other imaging modalities.
- application of the present invention is not limited to anatomical images.
- This invention also applies to non-anatomical images, including, but not limited to, satellite imagery, photographs, radar images, and images acquired from multiple sources.
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